All Labor Has Dignity: Dr. King’s Gospel of Economic Justice

The King Center event

Our 2011 Spring Series kicked off with a collaborative event with the Southern Labor Studies Association, entitled “All Labor Has Dignity: Martin Luther King, Jr. Gospel of Economic Justice,” at the King Center on Saturday, April 9th.

Speakers:Dr. Michael Honey, Haley Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma, is the editor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s labor speeches, All Labor Has Dignity (2011), author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign (winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award), and has collected and edited King’s previously unknown labor speeches for Beacon Press.